The Celebrity Death Pool Thread

#109
#109
Let's run down the last week or so:
1. David Carradine, 70's cult hero
2. Ed McMahon, longtime sidekick
3. Farrah Fawcett, 70's pin-up icon
4. Micheal Jackson, pop music icon
5. Billy Mays, TV pitchman

We are missing a sports figure and a major movie star. I am still sticking with Gary Busey but I want to add John Madden and Don Rickles.
 
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#118
#118
tommy lasorda, willie mays, hank aaron, bobby cox, oj simpson, jimmy carter

figured i would throw a few more names out there. you can't win if you don't rattle off some picks. apologize if anyone had any of these in an earlier post.
 
#120
#120
Karl Malden dead!!!

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#124
#124
superdave1984 said:
Alexis Arguello found dead. That just leaves a major movie star to complete the entire cycle.
Former boxing champ, Managua mayor Arguello dead - Yahoo! News
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Damn! I loved watching Aaron Pryor dismantle this guy.

Found this guy's memory of it too...

Remembering Arguello

Alexis Arguello died Wednesday at age 57, reportedly of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. It is a sad end for a man who had gone from world champion boxer to mayor of Managua, Nicaragua; the death is all the more poignant because Arguello had struggled with drug abuse and told Sports Illustrated in 1985 that he once sat with a gun and pondered killing himself.

Mercury News columnist Mark Purdy remembers Arguello as a good person and fighter, and he also recalls covering Aaron Pryor's victory over Arguello in a legendary fight in Miami's Orange Bowl in 1982:

I remember the police dogs on the floor of the Orange Bowl because Arguello was under a death threat from the Sandanistas. I remember waiting in line at the Orange Bowl urinal behind Dustin Hoffman. And I remember Peter King (who was covering it as the boxing beat guy from Cincy along with me as the columnist) and I at ringside wondering if there would be a riot if it came to a decision and Arguello lost, and then he and I standing on our chairs in the 14th round and counting the number of unanswered punches by Pryor ("Nine, 10, 11, 12 ...") before Arguello went down and was out ... still one of my most memorable nights in the business and a better fight even than Leonard-Hearns I, which I also covered.

Today? Nobody probably remembers either guy.
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It was a great fight

Another write up about this epic bout

http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ap-arguello-pryorfights&prov=ap&type=lgns
 
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